Digital BW, The Print

Sarah, 

I've been using BO with my 2200 for about a year and Mostly pleased
with the result. Follow Clayton's instructions for BO with the 2200;
they are so clear you can hardly miss. Just put the Eboni cartridge in
the Black slot and away you go. 

Assuming you have epson ink in the other slots, you can print BO or
color with same carts just by setting "color" or "black" in the print
dialog.You don't change the carts until they run out. Large areas of
black will be much better in BO. Dots appear in the grays only when
you examine the print closely, not when mounted on a wall or portfolio. 

Only you can tell whether the dots are acceptable in your work, but
it's so cheap to test it out. In fact, you don't even have to buy the
Eboni cart. Just print BO with the Epson Matte cart you already have
following Clayton's instructions. The Eboni just makes the blacks a
little blacker.

bill levine


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Leslie Otterbein
<lotterbein@t...> wrote:
>
> Hi Sarah:
> 
> I have a 2200 and I'm using Eboni, and all MIS colour ink as well. If 
> you are comfortable messing around with ink bottles, syringes, and 
> needles, you can buy the empty cartridges that MIS sells, and save a 
> bundle on ink by buying bulk and refillilng!  Otherwise, I think you 
> can just buy their Eboni cartridge and when you put it in the Black 
> slot, the machine will recognize it as the matte black.
> 
> I have not tried BO but QTR is quite nice using the eboni.
> 
> And no, you don't have to flush out the lines or anything. The 2200 
> pretty much does that for you when you switch.
> 
> Leslie Otterbein
> 
> On Dec 25, 2005, at 4:07 PM, sagaface wrote:
> 
> >  ...after reading Clayton Jones' articles as well as some others 
> > (Nicholas Hartmann's on
> >  Luminous Landscape was informative), I think I'd like to try BO 
> > printing to see if it might
> >  be suitable for my work. Most of my images are very high contrast 
> > with large areas of
> >  black, so I'm guessing that using Quadtone inks or UT7 wouldn't 
> > really be the way to go.
> >  I'm not very concerned about minute, zone-type gradations. As of
yet, 
> > though, I have not
> >  found a site that tells me how to set up the printer for it,
meaning, 
> > once I get that Eboni
> >  black ink in my hands, what do I do then? Which Epson black do I
swap 
> > out and do I need
> >  to flush the lines and how do I do that? Can someone direct me to a 
> > site that gives a
> >  novice like me some handholding instruction? I did see Clayton's 
> > article about settings for
> >  PSCS and in the printer dialogue box, but nothing about the ink 
> > itself besides
> >  recommending Eboni.
> >
> >  Sorry this post is a bit long....any help is appreicated! I'd also 
> > like to hear from others who
> >  like/dislike the BO way of printing. I've read that many don't like 
> > the "dots", but are there
> >  any other drawbacks or advantages you'd like to share? Has anyone 
> > exhibited prints made
> >  this way?
> >
> >
> >
> >  Thanks for ploughing through this tome!
> >  Sarah
> >
> Visit my websites at:
> 
> http://homepage.mac.com/lotterbein/
> 
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